Alejandro comments on How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alejandro 21 September 2008 03:19:23PM 6 points [-]

My prior probability for the existence of a secret and powerful crackpot group willing to sabotage the LHC to prevent it from "destroying the world" is larger than my prior probabilty for the LHC-actually-destroying-the-world scenarios being true, so after many mechanical failures I would rather believe the first hypothesis than the second one.